What are the festivals of the Dai people

Question 1: What are the festivals of the Dai people? The major festivals of the Dai people are the Water Festival, the Door Closing Festival and the Door Opening Festival, which are all related to Buddhism. The Door Closing Festival and the Door Opening Festival are the biggest fasting and fine period of the year, and grand "fine Buddha" activities and grand Buddhist ceremonies are held everywhere. Everyone should dedicate food, flowers, scriptures, clothes and money to Buddha according to the rules of Buddhism, and the whole society has a strong color of religious activities. The Water Splashing Festival is a major traditional festival of the Dai people and is the New Year of the Dai calendar. During the festival, the Dai people will hold recreational activities such as splashing water, racing dragon boats and releasing high rises, expecting to drive away the disasters and diseases of the past, and praying for favorable weather conditions in the new year, good harvests, and two prosperous people and animals.

1, Water Festival: Dai New Year. When in the Dai calendar June 24 to 26 (summer mid-April), the festival period of three or five days. Early in the morning of the festival, men, women and children bathed and dressed, to the Buddhist temple fine Buddha, that is, to the Buddha sprinkled with water to wash the dust, and then splashed each other, in addition to the disease elimination. Later evolved into a festival to splash water as a play. According to legend, there was a fire demon who snatched seven girls. The youngest girl, Nongxiang, learned the secret of killing the fire demon: pulling off its hair and strangling it to death. The devil's head became a ball of fire, and wherever it fell, fire broke out. The girls then threw water on it to extinguish the fire. This legend has become a custom, and gradually become the Water Festival. It is said that this custom originated in India, Brahmins every year at this time to the river bath, wash away the sins; elderly people can not go down to the river, their children will be splashing water to wash away their sins. After the introduction of China's Dai region.

2. Open Door Festival: The Dai language called "out of the puddle", meaning that the Lord Buddha out of the temple. Yunnan Dai traditional religious festival. It is held on December 15 of the Dai calendar every year. Its activities are the same as the Door Festival. December 15 of the Dai calendar, will be placed in the puddle of things behind the Buddha's seat to take out and burn, said Buddha has been out of the puddle, sixteen monks out of the puddle, the whole family of men, women and children to the Zang room to pay homage to the Buddha. The 17th held a grand "catch up with the dozen" activities, because this day the Buddha to the West after three months of preaching return to earth, so the villages and cottages are to sound the gongs and drums, held a grand event to meet the Buddha, but also in the Zang room to the Buddha's confession of sins for a year; monks take advantage of this time to the young men and women to publicize the teachings of the Buddha.

Open Door Festival, the agricultural work has been over, the weather is getting cold, Buddhist activities are not too much, young people will be able to talk about love or marriage, adults are going out to do business or visit friends and relatives. This is the time when the Dai people have the most cultural and recreational activities. People put fireworks, light fire lamps, put the high rise, traveling around the villages, very lively.

3, closed the door festival: the Dai language called "into the puddle", meaning that the Lord Buddha into the temple. Yunnan Dai traditional religious festival, held annually on the 15th day of the ninth year of the Dai calendar (mid-July of the lunar calendar), lasting three months. According to legend, on the ninth day of the Dai calendar every year, Buddha went to the Western Heaven to preach with his mother and returned to the earth in March. Once, just as the Buddha to the West preaching period, thousands of Buddhists to the countryside to preach, step on the people's crops, delaying their production, the people's grievances, very dissatisfied with the Buddhists. When the Buddha learned of this, he felt uneasy in his heart. From then on, every time the Buddha to the West when the Sutra, will be the Buddha disciples are gathered together, the provisions of the three months are not allowed to go anywhere, but only repentance, in order to redeem the previous sins. Therefore, people second for the "closed door festival".

Into the puddle of activities by successive generations of inheritance and development, the formation of a fixed number of activities: every year in the early morning of September 15 of the Dai calendar, Zang room (Buddhist temple) drums for the number, announced that the Buddha into the Zang room. Adherents must immediately get up at this time, or sit in bed, when the old man to the valley flower, incense, candles, money paper wrapped into a packet, sent to Zang Fang Buddha's back seat after two hours, Zang Fang drums again, the religious can go back to sleep, the old man is in Zang Fang to keep to the daybreak. Sixteen days of the congregation into the puddle to worship Buddha; the eighth day, the family sent food for Buddha, and then the Qing monk read the peace scriptures, historical stories, listened to be touched by the merits of the donation on the spot. Into the puddle of activities in the three months, every eighth, fifteenth, twenty-third, thirtieth, the elderly in each family to Zang room to worship Buddha once, the first night they slept in the temple ad hoc houses, by the young people to send food to the elderly to eat. These activities have become customary, and then every day to close the door on this day, people have to hold a grand fine Buddha (i.e., fasting monks dedicate Buddha) activities to food, flowers, wax strips, currency and other offerings to the Buddha. In these three months, every seven days but also "small fine" once.

After the shut door festival began, also entered the busy season of agriculture, in order to focus on productive labor, people set a lot of precepts: prohibit young men and women to talk about love and marriage activities; monks shall not go out casually; into the Zang worship of the Buddha can not be far away from the family or go to the other family to spend the night; no one may not go into the Buddha's house, the Buddha on the platform, to take the Buddha's things, and so on. Until three months later, that is, when the Open Door Festival, people only then resume all the days before the closing of the festival regular activities.

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Question 2: What are the festivals and customs of the Dai people Water Splashing Festival

"Water Splashing Festival" is a traditional festival of the Dai people to send the old and welcome the new, in the middle of April in the lunar calendar. The main activities during the festival are worshiping ancestors, piling up sand, splashing water, throwing sandbags, racing dragon boats, setting off fireworks and singing, dancing and revelry and other festivals. The Water Splashing Festival held in the sixth month of the Dai calendar every year is the grandest festival, which is called "Sangkan Bimai" in Dai language. The festival is called "Sangkan Bimai" in Dai language. At that time, the Buddha should be fine, and a feast is held to invite monks and friends and relatives to congratulate each other by splashing water. Now, because the water splashing activity is the main content of the Dai New Year festivities, this activity is loved by the people of all ethnic groups.

Door Closing Festival

"Door Closing Festival" in Dai language is called "Into the Pits", which means that Buddha enters the temple. It is a traditional religious festival of the Dai people in Yunnan, which is held on September 15 of the Dai calendar (mid-July of the lunar calendar) every year and lasts for three months.

According to legend, every year in September of the Dai calendar, the Buddha went to the Western Heaven to preach with his mother, 3 months to return to earth. Once, just as the Buddha to the West during the preaching period, thousands of Buddhists to the countryside to preach, step on the people's crops, delaying their production, the people complained a lot of grievances, very dissatisfied with the Buddhists. When the Buddha learned of this, he felt uneasy in his heart. Since then, every time the Buddha to the West when the Sutra, they will be the Buddhists are gathered together, the provisions of the three months are not allowed to go anywhere, but only repentance, in order to atone for the sins of the past. Therefore, it is called the "closed door festival".

Open Door Festival

"Open Door Festival", also known as "out of the puddle", the Dai language for the "Hauwasa", China's adherence to the Hinayana Buddhism Dai, Brown, De'ang and part of the Wa traditional festival. It is a traditional festival of the Dai, Brown, De'ang and some Wa ethnic groups in China. It is popular in the Yunnan region, originating from the ancient Buddhist custom of settling down during the rainy season, and is similar to the Buddhist festival of Xiefu in the Central Plains. It takes place on the 15th day of the 12th month of the Dai calendar (around the middle of the 9th month of the lunar calendar).

The Open Door Festival, symbolizing the end of the rainy season for three months, said to lift the "closed door festival" since the wedding taboo between men and women, that is, from now on, young men and women can start free love or wedding. On the day of the festival, young men and women go to a Buddhist temple in full costume to worship the Buddha and offer food, flowers, sticks of wax, and coins. After the festival, a grand entertainment *** is held to celebrate the end of the Anju fasting since the Kadom festival. The main events include the lighting of sparks and gaosung, the lighting of Kongming lanterns, singing and dancing. Youth will also dance a variety of birds, animals, fish, insects and other shapes of lanterns around the village. This is also a festival to celebrate the harvest as it coincides with the completion of the rice harvest.

Question 3: What are the festivals of the Dai people? The major festivals of the Dai ethnic group include the Water Festival, the Door Closing Festival and the Door Opening Festival, all of which are related to Buddhism.

The Door Closing Festival is on September 15 of the Dai calendar, and the Door Opening Festival is on December 15 of the Dai calendar. The two festivals are three months apart, and it is the biggest fasting and fine period of the year, and grand fine Buddhist activities and grand Buddhist ceremonies are held all over the world. Everyone should dedicate food, flowers, scriptures, clothes and money to the Buddha according to the rules of the Buddha, and the activities of the whole society have a strong color of religious activities. The whole society has a strong color of religious activities.

The Songkran Festival is a major traditional festival of the Dai people, the time is about ten days after the Lunar Ching Ming, belonging to the first of the year of the Buddhist religious festival, is the new year of the Dai calendar. The festival is the first Buddhist festival of the year, the Dai New Year. The Dai language is called Shanghan, Jingbimai (New Year), and Hounan (splash festival), Buddha's Birthday Festival, Buddha Bathing Festival or Flower Festival called. In the festival, the Dai people should be held in the water, dragon boat racing, put the high rise and other recreational activities, expect to drive away from the past disasters and diseases, and pray for a new year of wind and rain, grain abundance, people and animals two prosperous.

Question 4: Dai festival customs Dai is a long history and cultural characteristics of the nation, in China, mainly in Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture and other areas.

There are many festivals of the Dai people, and the most notable ones are the Door Closing Festival, the Door Opening Festival and the Water Splashing Festival.

¤ Open Door Festival and Close Door Festival

These are two closely related traditional festivals of the Dai people.

The Door Closing Festival begins in mid-July and lasts for about three months, while the Door Opening Festival takes place around mid-October.

During the period of the Door Opening Festival, there is no marriage, no building of houses, and no big entertainment activities are held in the village. After three months, when the festival expires, the Dai people will hold the celebration of the Open Door Festival.

Open the door is also known as "out of the puddle", the day of the festival, will close the door to the festival when the Buddha behind the seat of the things taken out to burn, said Buddha has been "out of the puddle"; festival the next day, the whole family of men, women and children to the temple to pay homage to the Buddha; on the third day, it will be held in the grand "Catch Duo" activities, is a set of rituals, ***, a hundred arts, trade in one of the temple fair.

During the Open Door Festival, young men and women dressed in full costume to go to the Buddhist temple to worship Ding, to food, flowers, wax bars, coins in honor. After the worship, a grand entertainment *** is held to celebrate the end of the Anju fasting since the Door Opening Festival. The main elements include the burning of sparks and gaosung, lighted Kongming lanterns and so on.

At this time, it coincides with the completion of the rice harvest, so the festival of the opening of the door is also a celebration of the harvest. It is a time for young people to fall in love or get married, and for adults to go out on business or visit friends and relatives.

¤ Water Splashing Festival

In addition to the Door Closing and Open Door Festivals, the Water Splashing Festival is the most distinctive festival of the Dai ethnic group, which takes place in the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar.

On the day of the Water Splashing Festival, people worship the Buddha, and the girls wash the Buddha with fresh water with flowers floating in it, and then splash water on each other to play and bless each other. At first with hands and bowls of water, and later with pots and buckets, the more intense the splash, drums, splashing sound, cheering into a piece. During the period will also be held in the dragon boat race, release flying lights and other traditional entertainment activities.

Go to Xishuangbanna during the festival, in addition to feeling the cheerful atmosphere of the festival, you can also look at the Dai people live in the characteristic bamboo building: nearly square bamboo building to dozens of thick bamboo support, overhanging paving floor boards, thatched rows covering the roof. Here you can also eat delicious bamboo rice, enjoy the Dai girls wonderful peacock dance.

However, it is also necessary to understand the taboos of the Dai people before you go: they are taboo on outsiders riding horses, driving cattle, picking burdens and tousled hair into the village; into the Dai bamboo building, you have to take off your shoes outside the door, and in the house to walk lightly; you can not sit on top of the fire pit or across the fire pit, you can not enter the owner's inner room, you can not sit on the threshold and so on.

Question 5: What are the traditional festivals of the Dai people? Bathing Buddha Festival

The Bathing Buddha Festival (Dai "bolan"), also known as the "Water Splashing Festival", originated from a ritual of Brahmanism in ancient India, and was later absorbed by Buddhism. It was later absorbed by Buddhism and was introduced into the Dai ethnic area with Buddhism from the end of the 12th century to the beginning of the 13th century. With the deepening of the influence of Buddhism in the Dai area, the Bathing Buddha Festival has become a custom of the Dai people, which has been passed down for hundreds of years.

The Buddha Bathing Festival is usually held in the sixth month of the Dai calendar, which is equivalent to the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar. On this day, the Buddha Bathing Festival is to use water to wash the dust for the Buddha, and then splash water and play with each other, wishing each other well, and then gradually developed to use pots and buckets, splashing and singing, the more intense the more intense, drums, gongs, splashing, cheering into a piece of sound.

In Xishuangbanna, the Buddha Bathing Festival is *** publicized as "Water Splashing Festival", which is held every year with traditional recreational activities such as dragon boat races, putting on high, putting on flying lanterns, and various songs and dances, attracting tourists from China and the world. In the Dehong area, the Buddha Bathing Festival is still only a religious festival.

Summer Festival

The Summer Festival (Dai "Hauwa"), also known as the "Shut the Door Festival", originated from the ancient Indian Buddhist practice of settling down during the rainy season, and was introduced to the Dai area with the Southern Buddhism.

The beginning of summer is also the beginning of the rainy season, that is, the rice farming society into the busy farming season, the ancient Buddhist monks in order to cooperate with the believers of the agricultural production activities, to stop the activities of the people around the missionary activities, focused on the temple or a place to practice, and gradually formed a customary practice. The Buddhist believers also in the monks focused on practicing during the period, stopped to the temple house of all activities, focus on agricultural production, and formed a habit. Later, monks and believers formed this tacit understanding of the relationship between the upper seat of Buddhism as a religious form of fixed, this form of religion with the upper seat of Buddhism into the Dai area.

The Dai people who believe in Southern Upper Zone Buddhism generally hold the summer ceremony on September 15 of the Dai calendar (mid-June of the lunar calendar), and the day of the summer ceremony is the "Summer Festival", and the Dai villages and temples have to beat the drums as a signal to tell people that the festival has arrived, and the Buddhist masters concentrate on chanting sutras in the temples, and the believers prepare food, flowers, bills, and so on. The believers prepare food, flowers, banknotes and so on, and the temple "fine Buddha". After that, it will enter the three-month "Jiexia". Jiexia period, the monks are prohibited from going out to preach, prohibit the faithful far away from returning, prohibit men and women to marry, prohibit large-scale celebrations, the monks should be at ease chanting, the people should focus on production.

Out of the summer festival

Out of the summer festival (Dai language "Angwa"), also known as the "Open Door Festival", and the "summer festival" corresponds to.

The "Summer Festival" is usually held on December 15 of the Dai calendar (mid-September of the lunar calendar), symbolizing the end of the three-month "Jiexia" period, which can be relieved of all taboos since the "Summer Festival". It symbolizes the end of the three-month "Jiexia" period and the lifting of all taboos since the "Summer Festival". Monks can go out of the temple to preach and raise funds, and men and women can also talk about love and marriage. Out of the summer festival on this day, the Dai people will be dressed in full costume, with food, flowers, wax bars, coins and so on to the Buddhist temple to worship Buddha to listen to the scriptures, and held a grand celebration, dancing with a variety of birds, animals, fish, insects and other shapes of lanterns around the village, fireworks, pointing the lanterns, jumping elephants foot drums dance and other recreational activities.

Question 6: What are the customs of Dai traditional festivals? The Dai is an ethnic group with a long history and distinctive culture, and mainly resides in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province.

There are many festivals of the Dai people, and the most notable ones are the Door Closing Festival, the Door Opening Festival and the Water Splashing Festival.

¤ Open Door Festival and Close Door Festival

These are two closely related traditional festivals of the Dai people.

The Door Closing Festival begins in mid-July and lasts for about three months, while the Door Opening Festival takes place around mid-October.

During the period of the Door Opening Festival, there is no marriage, no building of houses, and no big entertainment activities are held in the village. After three months, when the festival expires, the Dai people will hold the celebration of the Open Door Festival.

Open the door is also known as "out of the puddle", the day of the festival, will close the door to the festival when the Buddha behind the seat of the things taken out to burn, said Buddha has been "out of the puddle"; festival the next day, the whole family of men, women and children to the temple to pay homage to the Buddha; on the third day, it will be held in the grand "Catch Duo" activities, is a set of rituals, ***, a hundred arts, trade in one of the temple fair.

During the Open Door Festival, young men and women dressed in full costume to go to the Buddhist temple to worship the Buddha, to food, flowers, wax bars, coins in honor. After the worship, a grand entertainment *** is held to celebrate the end of the Anju fasting since the Door Opening Festival. The main elements include the burning of sparks and gaosung, and the lighting of Kongming lanterns.

At this time, it coincides with the completion of the rice harvest, so the festival of the opening of the door is also a celebration of the harvest. It is a time for young people to fall in love or get married, and for adults to go out on business or visit friends and relatives.

¤ Water Splashing Festival

In addition to the Door Closing and Open Door Festivals, the Water Splashing Festival is the most distinctive festival of the Dai ethnic group, which takes place in the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar.

On the day of the Water Splashing Festival, people worship the Buddha, and the girls wash the Buddha with fresh water with flowers floating in it, and then splash water on each other to play and bless each other. At first with hands and bowls of water, and later with pots and buckets, the more intense the splash, drums, splashing sound, cheering into a piece. During the period will also be held in the dragon boat race, release flying lights and other traditional entertainment activities.

Go to Xishuangbanna during the festival, in addition to feeling the cheerful atmosphere of the festival, you can also look at the Dai people live in the characteristic bamboo building: nearly square bamboo building to dozens of thick bamboo support, overhanging paving floor boards, thatched rows covering the roof. Here you can also eat delicious bamboo rice, enjoy the Dai girls wonderful peacock dance.

However, it is also necessary to understand the taboos of the Dai people before you go: they are taboo on outsiders riding horses, driving cattle, picking burdens and tousled hair into the village; into the Dai bamboo building, you have to take off your shoes outside the door, and in the house to walk lightly; you can not sit on top of the fire pit or across the fire pit, you can not enter the owner's inner room, you can not sit on the threshold and so on.

Question 7: What are the Dai festivals? The major festivals of the Dai people are the Water Festival, the Door Closing Festival and the Door Opening Festival, which are all related to Buddhism.

The Door Closing Festival is on September 15 of the Dai calendar, and the Door Opening Festival is on December 15 of the Dai calendar. The two festivals are three months apart, and it is the biggest fasting and fine period of the year, and grand fine Buddhist activities and grand Buddhist ceremonies are held all over the world. Everyone should dedicate food, flowers, scriptures, clothes and money to the Buddha according to the rules of the Buddha, and the activities of the whole society have a strong color of religious activities. The whole society has a strong color of religious activities.

The Songkran Festival is a major traditional festival of the Dai people, the time is about ten days after the Lunar Ching Ming, is the first of the year of Buddhism, the first religious festival, is the new year of the Dai calendar. The festival is the first Buddhist festival of the year, the Dai New Year. The Dai language is called Shanghan, Jingbimai (New Year), and Hounan (Water Festival), Buddha's Birthday, Buddha Bathing Festival or Flower Festival called. In the festival, the Dai people to hold water, dragon boat races, put the high rise and other recreational activities, expect to drive away from the past disasters and diseases, and pray for a new year of wind and rain, grain abundance, people and animals two prosperous.

Question 8: What is the biggest festival of the Dai people? The biggest festival of the Dai people is the Water Festival.

On the origin of the Water Festival, the legend is very vivid: a long time ago, in the Dai inhabited areas appeared a brutal king of the devil, he was evil, people suffered from his brutalization, he hated him to the bone, but no one can kill him. The devil has 11 wives, but he is still not satisfied, and snatched a beautiful and clever girl. The girl hated the Devil King in her heart, but on the surface, she did not show her feelings, pretending to be very close to the Devil King. One night, the devil king from the outside back to many treasures and slaves, she took advantage of the devil king is not prepared to try to ask the devil king with the devil king's hair can strangle the devil king's secret. So, in the dead of night, while the demon king was sleeping, the girl quietly pulled out a hair of the demon king and strangled the demon king's neck. In an instant, the devil's head rolled to the ground. However, wherever the devil's head rolled, disaster occurred. Throwing it into the river, the river flooded; burying it in the ground, it stank everywhere, and only the devil's wife held it in her arms to be safe. In order to avoid disaster, the girls will take turns to hold the devil's head, one person to hold a day. The day in the sky, equal to a year on the ground, every year, the girls rotate the day, that is, the seventh day after the Qingming Festival, the Dai people with the girls in a mood of admiration, to the girls to splash water, as a blessing to wash the dirt and purify the body. The Water Splashing Festival has been passed down in this way.

Legend to legend, the strength of the Dai Water Festival Dai New Year, which originated in India, was once a Brahmin religious rituals, and then absorbed by the Buddhist, through the Burmese Dai region of Yunnan. Time about the end of the twelfth century to the beginning of the fourteenth century, about 700 years ago, with the influence of the Southern Theravada Buddhism in the Dai area increased, the custom of the Water Festival is also increasingly widespread.

The Water Splashing Festival is generally in the solar calendar April 13 to 15 these three days, to the festival, the Dai men, women and children on the festival dress, picking the water, first to the Buddhist temple bathing Buddha, and then began to splash each other, you splash me, I splash you, a flower in the air in full bloom, it symbolizes good luck, happiness, health, young people in the hands of the bright crystal beads of water, but also symbolizes the sweet love. We splash each other splash, everywhere is the baptism of water, water blessing, water song. Duo Duohua string smile, water festival has become a sea of joy.

The content of the Water Festival, in addition to splashing water, there are dragon boat races, cockfighting, peacock dance, throwing bags, put the high, put the peacock lanterns and other activities. Every year to the time of the Water Festival, tens of thousands of Chinese and foreign tourists have gathered in Yunnan Xishuangbanna, Ruili and other Dai areas, to participate in and bless the Dai Water Festival. Year after year, the Water Splashing Festival is getting bigger and bigger and famous all over the world.

Question 9: What are the habits of the Dai people, what is the festival In the Han Dynasty, the Dai ancestors called "Dian Yue", the Qing Dynasty, more called "pendulum Yi", after the founding of New China, according to the wishes of the Dai people, officially named Dai . The Dai language belongs to the Zhuang-Dong branch of the Chinese-Tibetan language family. The Dai language is a branch of the Zhuang-Dong language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The Dai language is derived from the Indian alphabet. For a long time, the wise and intelligent Dai people have used these characters to record the profound culture and history of the Dai people. The Dai are divided into "Dry Dai", "Water Dai" and "Flower Waist Dai", and the different decorations represent the dress culture of their branches.

Close Door Festival and Open Door Festival

The Close Door Festival of the Dai people is held in the middle of July, which is the busy farming season. The festival is held to prohibit people from going out and young people from having love affairs so that they can concentrate on production. During this period, the belief in Buddhism also want to carry out religious activities - fine Buddha, the elderly more frequent.

By the middle of October, the three-month-long festival of closing the door ended, and the festival of opening the door came with it. At this time, the farm work has passed, people can go out, and young people can fall in love or get married.

Water Festival

The Dai Water Festival is the Dai New Year, generally in the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar, lasted three or four days. The original custom in the early morning of the festival, men, women and children bathing to the Buddhist temple "fine Buddha"; after the young men and women splashing water for the play, that can eliminate diseases. And now whenever the festival comes, regardless of the young and old are splashing each other blessing, in addition to holding a dragon boat race, put the high rise and other activities, and with the combination of catching the pendulum, so that the Water Festival adds new color.